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In a move that has attracted outrage from many local parents, an overzealous principal has accused a six-year-old of sexual assault. Levina Subrata’s son was playing tag in his Californian school playground when he was accused of touching his best friend’s upper thigh and groin.

BAY CITY, Mich. - A 93-year-old man froze to death inside his home just days after the municipal power company restricted his use of electricity because of unpaid bills, officials said. Marvin E. Schur died "a slow, painful death," said Kanu Virani, Oakland County's deputy chief medical examiner, who performed the autopsy. Neighbors discovered Schur's body on Jan. 17. They said the indoor temperature was below 32 degrees at the time, The Bay City Times reported Monday. "Hypothermia shuts the whole system down, slowly," Virani said. "It's not easy to die from hypothermia without first realizing your fingers and toes...

<p>As Iran's government geared up for its "Review of the Holocaust" conference... I wonder[ed] what my grandparents, Moishe and Golda Klieger, might have said.</p> <p>Moishe and Golda were murdered by the Nazis in Ukraine more than 60 years ago. Now, in 2006... [an] organized a conference questioning the reality of the Holocaust. Delegates from 30 nations saw fit to debate whether Hitler's systematic murder of 6,000,000 Jews - also including my five uncles and aunts, and many, many more relatives - ever took place.</p>